Revealed: Palestine Action's map of UK targets
Palestine Action has drawn up a new list of about 150 government buildings, military bases, financial institutions and insurance firms to target in attacks.
The organisation, which is due to be proscribed as a terrorist group, has urged its followers to damage the sites by smashing windows and equipment, spraying blood-red paint and pouring concrete into water pipes.
The 148 UK targets are included on a map the group uploaded to its website.
Alongside each target is a reason for its inclusion. For example, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development HQ in Westminster is there due to 'awarding unmanned aerial vehicle contracts'.
The Ministry of Defence's Whitehall premises has also been designated a target due to the same reasoning.
The map highlights pilot training schools at RAF Cranwell and RAF Barkston Heath, both in Lincolnshire, and RAF Valle in Anglesey, north Wales.
Allianz, one of the world's largest insurance firms, has 11 UK locations on the list and has been featured due to the company 'investing in, and providing insurance for, Israel's biggest weapons producer'.
BNY Mellon, one of the largest custodian banks, has six locations listed because it 'invests in excess of $12 million in Elbit Systems'.
It is not clear how the list has been drawn up but many of the targets are supposedly connected to Elbit, the military technology company.
Shannon airport, in County Clare, Republic of Ireland, is also featured, but no reason is given for its inclusion.
The site includes a link to Palestine Action's 'underground manual', which states: 'It's time to pick your target. Head to our website to find a list of secondary and primary targets who enable and profit from the Israeli weapons industry in Britain. Making your job to pick one a slightly easier process
'Each is just as culpable as the other, and applying pressure to them is key to breaking the links which sustain Israel's arms trade. It might be simpler to pick a target based on your locality, making it easier to plan, conduct the recces and save some transport costs!'
The guide includes various ways to attack sites, such as smashing windows and equipment with sledgehammers.
Elbit has faced most of Palestine Action's wrath, its sites repeatedly targeted at a cost of millions of pounds to the company.
Last year Palestine Action carried out almost daily protests at Elbit sites. One such incident in Bristol involved smashing through a factory fence with a prison van and damaging the building with sledgehammers. Two police officers and a security guard were injured.
In March analysis by The Sunday Times found that since its foundation in July 2020, Palestine Action has claimed responsibility for 356 direct actions on British-based defence and engineering firms, banks, insurance companies, estate agents and property companies, accountancy firms, universities and local government buildings the group claimed have links to Israeli defence firms.
The Times can also reveal the organisation's close links to the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), believed by British officials to have direct ties to Iran. Since the announcement about Palestine Action's proscription, the IHRC has repeatedly posted on social media its support.
IHRC was criticised by William Shawcross's independent review of Prevent as an 'Islamist group ideologically aligned with the Iranian regime' that has a history of 'extremist links and terrorist sympathies'.
Shawcross said senior figures had espoused support for violent jihad and 'advocated for the extraction and eradication of 'Zionists''.
Furthermore, Palestine Action has ties to Cage, the Islamist group that once praised Jihadi John as a 'beautiful young man'.
The two groups released a joint statement condemning the government's counterextremism definition in March 2024.
During the trial of the 'Elbit Eight' in 2023, Palestine Action and Cage ran a joint campaign to encourage demonstrations outside the trial and for supporters to attend court hearings.
Palestine Action has used IHRC annual Quds Day marches as a recruiting tool for the group and the group's co-founder Huda Ammori has spoken at IHRC rallies.
When The Times approached the IHRC about whether it funded Palestine Action, it said: 'While we support the aims and objectives of Palestine Action — namely, opposition to the crimes of Israel — we have not provided them with any financial or material support.'
Regarding Shawcross's description, it said: 'Shawcross's assertion that IHRC is 'ideologically aligned' with Iran is not evidence. It is opinion, and a deeply prejudiced one at that.'
Palestine Action was approached for comment.
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